Revision as of 16:12, 16 June 2017

The video playback mechanism in MythTV uses a common path for all of the types:

Recording playback.

Live TV.

Video playback.

There are checks in many places to do different things depending on the type.
Live TV is just a recording and simultaneous playback, but does have many nuances for features such as channel changing and moving from one program to the next.